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Accession
GO:0019563
Name
glycerol catabolic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
glycerol breakdown, glycerol catabolism, glycerol degradation
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of glycerol, 1,2,3-propanetriol, a sweet, hygroscopic, viscous liquid, widely distributed in nature as a constituent of many lipids. Source: ISBN:0198506732, GOC:go_curators
Comment
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History
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Chem. react.
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Subset
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Parents of glycerol catabolic process (GO:0019563)
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glycerol catabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  glycerol metabolic process (GO:0006071)
glycerol catabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  alditol catabolic process (GO:0019405)
glycerol catabolic process [RO:0004009 relation] RO:0004009  glycerol (CHEBI:17754)
Children of glycerol catabolic process (GO:0019563)
subject[Reorder by subject] relation[Reorder by relation] object[Reorder by object]
aerobic glycerol catabolic process (GO:0019564) [is_a relation] is_a  glycerol catabolic process
glycolytic process from glycerol (GO:0061613) [is_a relation] is_a  glycerol catabolic process
anaerobic glycerol catabolic process (GO:0019588) [is_a relation] is_a  glycerol catabolic process
MetaCyc
PWY0-381
PWY-4261